local post-entry raw material price. This requires anticipating how entry will affect market structure and intensify …

Conventional wisdom holds that a small and decreasing number of hog slaughter firms are using their "market power" to … in a perfectly competitive slaughter hog market. These performance norms are then confronted with observed weekly price …/quantity relationships over the 1991-2001 period to compare observed market performance with the ideal performance norms derived from the …

markets. We employ data for 51 local market areas from the Information Resources, Inc. "Supermarket Review" data base for 1988 … and 1989. Using national data, we identify the twenty top brands (by volume sales) and all cooperatives that market one or … more brands in each of the above categories, and report their national market shares, averages prices, number of local …

We find sale prices and net revenues received by sellers in the Midwestern club pig market are higher at traditional …

This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on … efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period … but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings indicate that the hog options market is efficient and is consistent with …

. However, there is strong market segmentation in terms of consumers’ response when exposed to brand information, suggesting …